CrossRef Search

Academic metadata search and DOI resolution via the public CrossRef REST API.

When to Use

• Resolving a DOI to get full citation metadata
• Searching for papers by title, author, or keywords
• Looking up journal ISSN metadata or publisher info
• Finding citation counts and reference lists
• Retrieving funder information for grants/awards

When NOT to Use

• Full-text access or downloading papers (use publisher sites)
• Preprint search (use arxiv-search)
• Biomedical literature (use pubmed-search)
• Author profile pages or h-index (use openalex-search)